Daughter of John Anderson Wilson and Nancy Ann Holiman.

Wife of Charles Andrew Yates.

Children:
Nancy Evalina (Lena) Yates 5/14/1905 - 7/7/1957
(m. Benjamin Franklin Joseph "Frank" Parker 8/21/1898 - 8/30/1969)
John Andrew "Johnny Alex" (Ted) Yates 12/14/1907 - 8/21/1967)
(m. Amy Hambrick 12/16/1905 - 1/25/1937)
(m. Donne Owens ? - 3/4/1999)
Claudia Mae Yates 12/7/1909 - 10/11/1985
(m. Cecil Ray Lawrence 8/31/1907 - 11/20/1979)
Lillie Leoda Yates 9/30/1916 - 9/6/2002
(m. Garland Riley Gimlin 7/11/1915 - 1/19/1960)
(m. Cecil Hughes 1909 - 1977)
Charles Garland Yates 7/28/1919 - 2/9/1994
(m. Laura Bernadine Williams 9/15/1923 - )
Carlyn or Carl Lynn Yates 9/30/1922 - 7/11/1924

Grandma Yates was very religious and studied the Bible a great deal even though she did not attend church. She was not known for having a great sense of humor and is remembered as a very stoic, serious person. Grandma Yates enjoyed playing the accordion and on occasions singing as she played. Grandma would play it whenever the mood hit her whether someone was in the home or she was alone. Her grandson Charles Weldon Parker clearly recalled building a new porch with Grandpa Yates onto the Yates' home. Upon its completion, he recalled his grandmother coming out onto the new porch and playing her accordion. Grandpa Yates did not care too much for the music and Charles believes she played it a lot of the time just to irritate her husband. Grandma Yates also raised chickens and was afraid to leave them alone overnight. Whenever she and her husband traveled to Warner, Oklahoma to visit her daughter Claudia Yates Lawrence and her family, grandma had to bring her chickens with her. Grandpa Yates was heard many times to comment about "Ider and her chickens!"
Many of the Wilson family members had thick "tree stump" legs and some suffered from swollen lower legs due to venous insufficiency. Also, many had bowel problems such as colitis. A genetic trait for the family seemed to be puffy or droopy eyelids as well as evidenced by grandma's eyes.